VOL. 9 NO. 44
County Swine Producers
Hold Fall Carcass Show
The first part of a two-part
hog show got under way
Tluusday night at the West
Lampeter Fair Market hogs
ueie submitted by 13 mem-
Ijeis of the Lancaster County
S«me Produceis Ass’n These
ueie judged by Prof Glenn
E Kean, Meat Specialist at
Pennsylvania State University
The idea of this two-part
show was to judge the animals
on-100l for inches of baekfat,
body length, loineye size, and
the percentage of dressed car
cass weight made up by ham
and loin When the hogs are
slaughtered and cut up, the
accuracy of the on-foot judg
ing can be determined. This
tjpe of show can help the
swmeman learn to more ac
ciuately select his breeders
toi their true cut-out value,
this approach can be a great
asset to the meat industry in
its constant struggle toward
Larry High Beef Champ At
New Holland 4-H Roundup
\ solid little Angus owned
and snowed by Larry High,
Baieville, came out on top of
a Oentiy Angus class and went
on to win Grand Champion
ot the Show at the New Hol
land Fair
Lauy, son of Mi and Mrs
Haney High, also handled his
animal to a runner-up position
in the Showmanship class
Reserve Champion was a
Heieford owned by William
Slink of Goodville, and shown
b\ Bob Fisher, East Earl HI
The Showmanship class was
Larry High proudly holds his Angus steer that brought him Grand Champion
4-H Baby Beef at the New Holland Farmers Fair. On the right is the Reserve
Grand Champion Steer, a Hereford, that was shown by Bob Fisher. The Hereford
steer is owned by William Shirk, Goodville. L. F. Photo.
the goal of the “perfect”
meat-type hog
Members were supplied with
evaluation sheets on which to
iccord their estimates of the
desned meat characteristics
as they looked over each hog
As each animal was observed
the judge recorded his esti
mates, and then invited pai
ticipatmg members to voice
then ideas about the animals
then in the ring
The judge finally decided
on the four most-likely hogs,
and invited the audience to
bring back any others that
they felt rated top considera
tion They only asked for one
hog other than the four the
judge had originally picked
These five top hogs were
owned by Willow Glen Farm,
a Yorkshire, Warren Leinmg
er, a Spotted Poland, John Eby
& Son, a Duroe, Clair Hart
(Contmued on Page 7)
won by Lauy Weaver, New
Holland Rl, with an Angus
steer that was runnei up in
the class competition
The Best Fitted class was
also taken by an Angus This
one was owned by Galen Yod
er, Elveison R 2 Galen finished
in fourth position in the An
gus judging
The judge for this show was
Haiold Stewart, County Agent
for Dauphin County Club
leaders assisting at the show
were Lester M. Weaver, New
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3, 1964
NEPPCO Plans
Really Big Show
HARRISBURG, Pa An
exposition with moie square
feet of educational, technical
and commercial displays than
any staged m recent years by
the Noitheastern Poultry Pro
ducers Council will be opened
by NEPPCO Officials next
week in this city’s huge Farm
Show Building
Some 5000 poultrymen from
all sections of the 14-state
noitheastern region repiesent
ed by NEPPCO are expected
to gathei foi the annual con
vention and show The thiee
day exposition runs thiough
October 6-7-8
The big yearly event cov
ers educational sessions on
more than a dozen vital top
ics and includes a huge family
banquet, complete programs
for youth, the womenfolk and
turkey growers, and the se
lection of outstanding farm
youths in a vanety of cate
gories, including the “Poul
try Princess of the North
east’’ and the “Star Poultiy
Fanner of the Northeast”
Living up to its tradition,
the exposition wll seive as
the stage for unveiling the
latest technological advances
m poultry equipment, sup
plies and services of scores
of commercial Aims living
up to its histone lole as the
marketplace foi noitheastern
poultrymen
Secondly, it will serve as
an educational i efresher
coiuse Three dajs of mten
sive coverage of the most vi
tal topics in the poultiy in
dustry today will be given by
outstanding people in the field
fiom all parts of the country
Getting top billing among
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Crew working for Bird-in-Hand builder Jacob
Flaud take down barn on property of Armstrong,
Cork Co. board by board. The barn will be moved to
Lebanon County to replace one that recently burned
on the farm of Herman Reist. L. F. Photo.
Farmer Loses A Bam;
Farmer Gains A Bam
About noontime last August
6 fire struck the farm of Hei
man Reist in South Lebanon
Township By the time it was
brought undei control 59 cat
tle weie incinerated Also
among the ashes were two
cultipackeis, disc, ioiler hai
iow, wagon and load of saw
dust, small wagon, six milk
eis and cooleis seveial thou
sand bushels of barley, 40
tons of hay and sLaw, and
other equipment The loss was
estimated at neai ?100 000
Meanwhile in Lancastei
County Levi H Biubaker and
A G Buchei had agieed to
help the Turnei Construction
Co get a barn lemoved from
a property that the Armstrong
Cork Co had bought thiee or
four years ago Then Brubak
er saw the story on the Reist
fire in the September issue of
the Farm Bureau Mirror, and
the rest is history
Jacob Flaud, a builder from
Bind in-Hand, was hired to
take down the Lancaster barn,
move it to Lebanon, and re
assemble it on Reist’s property.
Working with about a five
man crew, Flaud estimates it
will take a week to take down
the barn, then about three to
five truck trips to haul the ma
tenal to Lebanon, and two to
thiee weeks to completely as
semble the barn at the other
end Reist plans to have a
barn raising which will help
Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the next
five days are expected tto
average 2 to 7 degrees be
low normal. It will be cool
er over the weekend with
little day to day changes
thereafter.
Precipitation may total
more than .5 of an inch.
This will occur as scattered
showers at the beginning of
the period, with more gen
eral rain late Sunday and
Monday.
$2 Per Year
speed up the operation
The old barn was on the
farm of Aaron C Hostetter,
and was in operation until
about April 1963 The Hostet
ter farm was one of six or
seven f aims purchased by the
Armstiong Coik Co
Reist’s old bam was 42’
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Eugene Risser
Wins FFA Award
It was decided when all the
points w r ere tallied b> the Vo
cational Agriculture instructors
at then monthly meeting
Tnursday that Eugene Risser,
Lititz Rl, had won the FFA
Judging Contest
Gene, a student at War
wick High School, piled up a
total score of 681 points, four
points more than his nearest
rival, Leroy Eshleman of Penn
Manor High School
This annual award is based
on the students individual
scores in each of eight 3udg
(Contmued on Page 5)
Farm Calendar
Oct 6 NEPPCO Convention
at Faim Show Bldg, Har
i isburg
Oct 7 Manheim Farm Show
630 p m Baby Bee£
Judging
NEPPCO Comention
6 30 p m NEPPCO Annual
Banquet and Poultry Prin
cess Pageant
Baby Beef Club Paients
Night at Milton Brecht
School
Oct 8 NEPPCO Convention.
Manheim Faim Show
630 pm Dairy Show.
Oct 9 Manheim Farm Show.
645 p m Annual 4-H
Dairy Banquet, Hostetlers
Banquet Hall, Mt Joy.
Oct. 10 9 am 4-H Rab
bit, Entomology, and Handy
man Exhibits.